Find Jesus and win an assault rifle

[URL=http://www.koco.com/news/16860079/detail.html]The idea was to raffle off a semiautomatic assault rifle to some TEENAGER who attends this service!!![/URL]

[quote]“I don’t want people thinking ‘My goodness, we’re putting a weapon in the hand of somebody that doesn’t respect it who are then going to go out and kill,'” said Ross. “That’s not at all what we’re trying to do.”

Ross said the conference isn’t all about guns, but rather about teens finding faith.[/quote]

Yeah, right... So how can they be 100%, without a question, definitely sure that the kid who wins really got religion or was just there for the prize?

One of the organizers couldn't make it, so the service was canceled. They plan to try again next year.

Oh come on Diva. Assault rifle? Assault rifles are illegal to own without a Class 3 license. It would have to be a semi-automatic rifle that a teenager in Oklahoma would use for either hunting or marksmanship. Stop with the breathless hyperbole. :D

[quote author=DivaWrangler link=topic=5826.msg98646#msg98646 date=1215975010]The headline is designed as an attention grabber. Made YOU look, didn't it?

Did you read the content or just jump at the headline, Twinks? The first line of my post clearly says SEMI-ASSAULT.

[/quote]Typical language and a ploy used by gun grabbers, newspapers, and anti-gun groups like HGC. It is a totally false statement. You need a class 3 license to own a true assault rifle. This goes back to the arguement that the Clinton gun laws were nothing more than ugly gun laws. People just don't like the way they look and it gives them a reason to discriminate and make laws against gun ownership...

Government is not a mechanism to Prosperity [b]Our constitutional ignorance -- perhaps contempt, coupled with the fact that we've become a nation of wimps, sissies and supplicants -- has made us easy prey for Washington's tyrannical forces[/b]

Thousands of people have been stopped and searched in recent weeks as part of a police drive to deter young people from carrying knives.

Meanwhile, London Mayor Boris Johnson said he would be talking to the Government about bringing forward new measures to tackle the crime.

"We need to do all we can to address the long-term complex root causes of violence as well as ensuring the police are providing an effective deterrent to those who carry knives and guns," he said.

Stabbing updates

:: Edmonton: Two men have been arrested after a 19-year-old was knifed in a confrontation at a bedsit in Gloucester Road.

:: Leyton: Detectives are investigating reports that 20-year-old Adnan Patel was stabbed in a road rage incident and tried to flee the scene in his car before crashing. Four people were arrested shortly after the attack.

:: Walthamstow: a man aged in his 20s was fatally stabbed in the chest and head in an attack in St David's Court.

:: Tottenham: A man thought to be in his 40s was found stabbed to death at the rear of a disused pub in Tottenham High Road. Two men and a woman were arrested nearby.

Government is not a mechanism to Prosperity [b]Our constitutional ignorance -- perhaps contempt, coupled with the fact that we've become a nation of wimps, sissies and supplicants -- has made us easy prey for Washington's tyrannical forces[/b]

OK I agree Churches shouldn't be giving away anything to get people to come. The message should be enough. Now the question of the so called assult rifle . A local NRA chapter took a BB gun added a scope, wire stock, a tripod and a sling . took a photo and asked if this type of gun was an assult rifle. the majority of the uninformed people said it was and should bebaned.Most thugs don't rob banks with long guns in the first place. and No Mr. AFT agent you can't have my AR-15 (I've only fired it 2 times )and it is sighted in thank you. Ted Kennedy's old car has killed more people that it has.